Why use a Travel Agent?

10 Reasons why smart consumers use a travel agent

1. The best value for your travel dollar - We inform you about all your choices, let you know about special promotions, and can advise on the quality of a particular product.

2. Convenient one-stop shopping - We'll save you time and money by handling every aspect of your trip, from air tickets, van transportation, and lodging, to your car rental and activities.

3. Expert Guidance - We're experts in understanding and deciphering the intricacies of the system and in helping you take full advantage of them.

4. Professional Advice - Our job is to make sure you get where you need to go, at the best price, and in the most pleasant way possible.

5. Trust - We're not some anonymous Web site or long distance number. We're a local business. You know how to reach us when you need us.

6. Maximum Choice - We give you a wide variety of travel options and quotes from competing travel suppliers.

7. Customer Advocate - Experience problems during your trip? We can assist you in resolving concerns.

8. Personalized Service - We're not some impersonal voice thousands of miles away. We're your neighbor. We know you and what you value in your travel experience.

9. Time Savings - We have all the information at our fingertips and can pull up all your travel options within seconds.

10. Unbiased Information - We work for you, not the travel supplier. Our only objective is to get you the best value and satisfy your completely. That way you'll come back and see us again.

Here are more reasons from Travel Agent Magazine:

Top 10 Reasons to Use a Travel Agent - March 5, 2007

1.You've Googled "Mexican Vacation" and came up with 17.8 million responses. Need a little help editing those choices?

2. Remember when you used that obscure web site to book your hotel, and when you got there, you spent your beach vacation overlooking a parking lot?

3. Did you really mean to spend your honeymoon at that resort whose one tiny pool was filled all day with screaming kids?

4. Who knew that when you booked that "villa" in Tuscany, it would be a small room with a kitchenette and no air conditioning? Funny, it looked much better on your computer screen.

5. No one explained to you that in July, it's winter in Rio, and so you showed up there with nothing but Hawaiian shirts and swimsuits.

6. How about the time you needed a restful vacation and ended up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and someone threw up on your shoes?

7. Yes, I guess that hotel must have used a telephoto lens when they took a picture of those guest rooms that you saw on the web site.

8. I suppose contacting the Attorney General to resolve the fact that the Internet site has billed your credit card three times instead of once is the only route to take at this point.

9. It was definitely odd that there were no cab drivers at the airport at 3am when your plane finally landed in Costa Rica, but booking a transfer to your very remote hotel would have been a good thing to remember when you booked your airline ticket and hotel on line.

10. Oh, no one told you that the flight had a 12 hour layover- and it was going to be overnight? Oh, they didn't tell you that the connecting flight was in a different airport, either?

In summary, it pays to use a travel agent.

In planning your vacation, I will:
save you a tremendous amount of research time
get the best vacation for your money
provide you with information on the area you will be visiting
give you travel and packing trips
contact the resort prior to your arrival to request any upgrades or special amenities available
follow-up after you return
and I don't add a consulting fee 

  
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